Bruce Arians wasn’t lying when he said he wanted to keep the Bucs’ defense together.
Tampa Bay applied the non-exclusive franchise tag to Shaquil Barrett and re-signed Jason Pierre-Paul to a two-year/$27 million dollar contract on Monday. Both players combined for 27.5 of the Bucs’ 47 sacks in 2019, so you can see why Arians was so adamant about bringing them back for another run.
The Bucs have been known to be pretty shrewd when it comes to managing money over the last few years and it looked like that was the case again on the first day of free agency.